Central Library will not have the following services available on Saturday, October 12, due to the Heartland Book Fest: tech services, public computers and printing, and microfilm.
Signature Event
Thursday, January 12, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
A newborn baby is kidnapped from a Kansas City hospital. A New Year’s Eve bank robber takes hostages in a stand-off. A pharmacist dilutes the medic...
Signature Event
Wednesday, January 11, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Wendell Potter, a former VP of CIGNA, argues that health insurers make promises they have no intention of keeping, flout regulations...
Signature Event
Thursday, January 5, 2012
6:30pm
In Person
Library Director Crosby Kemper III conducts a public conversation with former Missouri Governor Bob Holden, explo...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Former Kansas City School District teacher James P. Wilcox discusses Sex, Lies, and the Classroom – a novel...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 13, 2011
5:30pm
In Person
Google is making its ultra-high-speed fiber optic network available to Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas, residents in 2012. The...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 11, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Welsh-born actor Guy Masterson reads A Child’s Christmas in Wales, one of the most popular works by Welsh w...
Signature Event
Sunday, December 11, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
Kathy Kelly, co-coordinator of Voices for Creative Nonviolence, discusses her four trips to Afghanistan since 2010 and explains what...
Signature Event
Thursday, December 8, 2011
2:00pm
In Person
United States Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer discusses the role of the Court in American government and explains why he believe...
Signature Event
Tuesday, December 6, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
The Kansas City Brass – a six-member ensemble comprised of Kansas City Symphony performers – returns for its annual holiday perfor...
Signature Event
Monday, December 5, 2011
6:30pm
In Person
Isaac Getz – a professor at the highly touted ESCP Europe international business school – discusses his new book Freedom,...